Hello guys, first of all, sorry for my bad english These are my pizzas and my little G3 Ferrari Pizza Express electric oven (with some important changes).

All pizzas were made by using Caputo Pizzeria flour, 65-66% water, salt 45-50 gr/L and 0.5-1 gr/L of fresh yeast.

"Puntata" (that's how we call in Italy the 1st fermentation in mass): from 15 to 20 hour at controlled room temperature;"Appretto", or "apretto" (that's how we call in Italy the 2nd fermentation in balls): from 4 to 6 hours in wooden boxes.

Hello! Yes, that's the oven we're talking about. The ovens were made in Italy in the early 80's till now from G3 Ferrari. I have 3 types of this oven. The 1st original model (made in italy), a more recent version of the original red colored "Pizza Express Napoli" (which I modified as well as the grey colored one), and the grey one. The grey colored version was made in P.R.C, the red version was made in Italy. They're similar.

The most important mods I made are:

1) double heat element on the top of the oven; 2) a "deflector", which protects the center of the pizza and distributes the heat on the edges of the pizza;3) reflective aluminum on the back of the heat elements, which reflects the heat on the stone;4) rotating stone.

I called this mod type "M8-R" (because you can mod these oven with basic and less invasive changes). The oven power is up to 2000-2100W, instead of the original 1200W. The "consolle" allows to manage separately top heat elements and bottom heat elements.

Thanks so much for posting your workflow and recipe. You are producing beautiful pizzas with your little oven.

What is your controlled room temperture?

John

It was about 17-18 °C... but now in Italy (particularly in Rome) we have high temperature (minimum 20-22 °C in the night and maximum 37-38 °C) so I solve the problem just by adding more salt and less yeast.

So there is 2x 110v heaters in these china models which i also have. I would need to get one more heat element of 220-240v or i could just buy on of these china clones and put 2 heaters on bottom and also to top, with this setup you would run 2 ovens in one. If I'm not going to find one element of 220-240v i would have to double or nothing.

Is there anyone who has just changed the bottom heater to the top ? I guess the stone would heat even the heat comes just from the upper elements.

You can try to put a double circular heating element from a domestic oven, but It's a lot of power to handle, you'll need a rotating stone or a power regulator or enlarge the space beetween the stone and the heating element.